Siola wins $187,000 in PokerStars Sunday Million
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
This past Sunday, 7,962 players paid up via satellites and direct buy-ins to compete in the PokerStars Sunday Million, creating a prize pool of $1,592,400 with a first-place prize of $240,000.
Almost 1,200 players reached the money after six gruelling hours of play, before eventual winner Siola knocked out 10th place bubble boy Phatigue to take a monster chip lead going into the final table:
Seat 1: Lounatic0815 (19,321,372 in chips)
Seat 2: RickoT (4,957,241 in chips)
Seat 3: TEACH604 (6,342,562 in chips)
Seat 4: sandman201 (3,334,102 in chips)
Seat 5: monkeyboxes (6,392,036 in chips)
Seat 6: siola (23,947,867 in chips)
Seat 7: wader (3,815,664 in chips)
Seat 8: mizarkshzark (4,221,284 in chips)
Seat 9: spitznspots (7,287,872 in chips)
Action stopped with six players remaining as the near-full table paused to discuss a deal of some description. After various numbers being thrown around, the sextet arrived at the following figures, with $30,000 remaining for the winner:
Seat 1: Lounatic0815 (20,187,520 in chips) = $160,000.00
Seat 3: TEACH604 (10,327,303 in chips) = $96,000.00
Seat 5: monkeyboxes (3,162,036 in chips) = $60,000.00
Seat 6: siola (19,450,391 in chips) = $157,860.54
Seat 8: mizarkshzark (10,990,272 in chips) = $100,000.00
Seat 9: spitznspots (15,502,478 in chips) = $121,318.48
Eventually, spitznspots and siola reached the heads-up stage with the eventual winner holding a near 2-1 chip advantage. However, spitznspots was slowly chipping his way up the leaderboard before he relinquished the lead again in a non-showdown pre-flop pot.
Eventually he moved all-in with A3, but ran into the AQ of siola and could find no help on the board.
The final payout figures, including the six-way chop, are as follows:
1st place: siola ($187,860.54)
2nd place: spitznspots ($121,318.48)
3rd place: mizarkshzark ($100,000.00)
4th place: Lounatic0815 ($160,000.00)
5th place: TEACH604 ($96,000.00)
6th place: monkeyboxes ($60,000.00)
7th place: wader ($31,848.01)
8th place: sandman201 ($18,312.61)
9th place: RickoT ($12,341.11)